Extended Delays

[Rage]

Ill be getting a nice fat paycheck thursday n ill be sure to donate. Seriously tho. Donation bar atop forum. Put goal 500 bucks with progress bar nand percentage as well. I wanna see how long it takes.

[ZERO]

I have found that there is an option C although it is risky in the event a 4tb drive fails. The real problem with option C is that it involves installing Windows 8...

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As I said before the root of the problem is with NTSF and therefore if I replaced NTSF with ReFS my problems would be solved. There is a way to run ReSF in windows 8 using this mod: http://forums.mydigitallife.info/thr...lient-Download

So I could downgrade to windows 8 and then install that mod to get ReFS and then copy everything off my array to either a second temp array or something and then copy it back after reformatting in ReFS. The total cost would be much lower than having a second computer.

I have an old PCI raid card that supports raid 5. I could use that in a computer even though it is only SATA1 and in theory have a safe array to use.

Possible costs for this would be: $604-$770 assuming that my old raid card works (and I can find a computer with a pci slot) (it may b possible to make a raid 5 on this motherboard too)

[ZERO]

Yes as I thought my board has raid 5:

Dual RAID

The Intel ICH10R chipsets incorporate Six Serial ATA connectors with high performance RAID functions in RAID 0, 1, 10 and 5. The JMicron controller provides another two Serial ATA connectors for RAID 0, 1, and JBOD functions. This motherboard is the ideal solution to enhance hard disk performance and data back up protection without the cost of add-on cards.

Unfortunately I have 4 HDDs plugged into those 6 ports...

I could temp disconnect 2 of them and figure something out. Maybe wire the esata ports internally lol.

[ZERO]

Raid 5 but no support for drives over 2TB shit never a cheep solution

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OK the alternative is $960 to get a 4 port raid card and add it to my system with 4x 2tb drives in raid 5 then copy the data to those then reformat in ReSF then copy back then b/c I used the same brand raid card and same size drives I can then destroy the raid 5 array and add those 4 drives to my existing raid 6 by using both cards for 1 massive array with double the capacity I have now.

Regardless still need donations to do any of these options.